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lazzarav
lazzarav
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Where in the actual novel (chapter number, etc.) can I locate Faulkner's longest sentence (1,287 words) in "Absalom, Absalom?"?

Neither my reference librarians nor I can find it in the Guinness Book of World Records on-line or in the copies of the GBoWR at my campus library or on the internet. So I was hoping that a true Faulknerian could help me.

I'm in search of it because my students cannot believe that a sentence can be that long without being a run-on, so I would like to analyze it with them.

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Posted by lazzarav on Thursday February 1, 2007 at 2:48 PM and tagged with absalom, absalom!.

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  1. chloemink Student

    I would recommend a flip through the book. I know the sentence goes on for a couple of pages and found that it begins with "They bore it as though..."

    Sources:
    http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3107/pinker.html

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    Posted by chloemink on Thursday February 1, 2007 at 3:10 PM


  2. blazedale

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    OK, I found it for you. It's on page 361 of the corrected text Modern Library edition. You can actually read some of the sentence online at Amazon, which has a search inside the book feature.

    Sources:
    http://www.amazon.com/Absalom-Corrected-Text-Modern-Libra...

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    Posted by blazedale on Friday February 2, 2007 at 10:30 AM

  3. revolution
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    This question has been asked and answered in the previous question

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    Posted by revolution on Sunday August 30, 2009 at 10:51 PM